Phishing is an act of sending fraudulent e-mail by perpetrat
or to users and in an attempt to steal personal information such as username, password, credit card number, bank account number from the user.
or to users and in an attempt to steal personal information such as username, password, credit card number, bank account number from the user. Phishing is usually carried out by e-mailing or instant messaging. Perpetrator will usually send e-mail to users which direct the users to a fictitious website. Then, the perpetrator will trick the users to update their personal information in that website by threatening the users that their accounts will be deleted if the users refuse to update; or by offering fictitious attractive prizes to users who update their personal information.
This is how perpetrator steals user’s personal information by creating fake website that is almost similar to the legitimate enterprise and tricks users to update their personal information.
Examples of phishing
An example of phishing e-mail from Citibank
A recent phishing e-mail from Citibank which threatening user to update their personal information
Example of a typical, poorly-constructed phishing e-mail message
Ways to prevent phishing
1. NEVER, open any e-mail that send by strangers. Set your junk and spam mail filter to deliver only content from those in your address book.2. If those junk mails are sending to your inbox, just delete off! Don’t even have a second thought on wanting to open those fictitious mails.
3. If you are in doubt whether those e-mail that send by financial institutions, just pick up your phone can call to confirm.
4. Always look for the small tiny lock on the bottom right of your browser window. Valid website that requires user to transfer sensitive personal information would have that.
5. Valid website would have addresses which begin with https:// but not the usual http://
6. Don’t be a greedy person. Never get fooled by those surveys that ask for sensitive personal information by offering fictitious attractive prizes .
7. Lastly, keep yourself updated with the latest phishing methods and ways to prevent it.
So… start google today and don’t be the next victim.
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1 comments:
You really teach me a lesson. I did not know about this thing before.
July 31, 2009 at 9:55 AMPost a Comment